Keto Diet Shows Antidepressant Effect in Drug-Resistant Depression

Keto Diet Shows Antidepressant Effect in Drug-Resistant Depression

(MedPage Today) -- New randomized trial results showed that a ketogenic diet added to drug therapy had antidepressant effects in patients with treatment-resistant depression. For the primary endpoint, depression severity at 6 weeks measured using...

New Study Suggests Keto Diet Can Help Treatment-Resistant Depression

A recent clinical trial suggests the high-fat, low-carb keto diet may offer modest but statistically significant improvements in treatment-resistant depression.e60dc2a1-f33c-4a05-9b50-8e3e8e597629ebf8fdcb-75c8-41fd-866d-35ca1929a2f2 “Around 1 in 3 patients with depression don’t respond fully to antidepressants ,” says the lead study author Min Gao, PhD , an epidemiologist and a health behavior scientist at the University at Oxford in England. “A…

Keto Diet Has Anti-Depressant Benefits

A ketogenic diet, high in fat and low in carbohydrates, could improve the mental health of people with treatment-resistant depression, a small trial has shown. Keeping to the keto diet for six weeks had antidepressant benefits when compared with a well-matched control diet in the Dietary Interventions for Mental Health (DIME) study. However, maintaining the eating plan—which is similar to the Atkins diet made popular in the 1970s—was challenging…